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Food

Foods (or Foodstuffs as considered by the Creative inventory) are consumable items that when eaten restore hunger points, and sometimes cause status effects. They are essential to The Player's survival. Most foods are eaten by holding Use Item. Cake must instead be placed, like other blocks, on a surface before being eaten. A Survival Modeplayer must eat food items regularly, or they will begin losing health and die soon after. Food makes a burp noise after it is eaten.

Players have two different food statistics, only one of which is visible: The hunger level (visible), and the saturation level (invisible).

Saturation is the first statistic to decrease when a player performs energy-intensive actions, and it must be completely depleted before the visible hunger meter begins decreasing. Although the current saturation level is generally hidden, you can tell that your saturation level is completely depleted if the visible hunger meter begins displaying a jittering effect.

Eating a food item replenishes a fixed number of hunger points and saturation points, based on the item. Some foods have a better ratio of saturation to hunger points replenished than others.

A player's current saturation level can never exceed their current hunger level. A player at a hunger level of 5, for example, can only be at a maximum of 5 saturation. This is important to remember when choosing which foods to eat for the most efficient use of food: Highly saturating foods/low hunger-restoring foods should be eaten when the hunger bar is more full, especially when the bar has begun jittering. If you eat highly saturating foods when the bar is low, saturation points are likely wasted, since saturation level can never exceed hunger level.

The "nourishment" table below can help by categorizing foods by their saturation-to-hunger restoration ratios. See the more detailed Foods table for the exact hunger and saturation statistics of each food.

Food Points + Saturation, which gives roughly how 'long' the food will last. See hunger for details. This value will be reduced if you are near your food or saturation caps, as excess points of either type will be wasted.

Average expected food quality if food poisoning isn't cured. Food poisoning lasts 30 seconds from the last food that inflicted it, and drains nearly 2 shanks of hunger over that duration. The loss comes from saturation before visible hunger.

In pocket edition, food restores health instead of hunger and there is no replacement for saturation. This is because the hunger bar has not been implemented yet. The number of health points restored is the number of hunger points restored in the PC version if the food exists in that version.

When you eat stew, the brown particles of the bowl spray out as well, making it seem like you are eating the bowl. Also, it makes a "chewing" sound effect rather than "slurping" (as milk and potions do) further suggesting you are actually eating the bowl. Despite all this, the bowl is retrieved with no damage whatsoever.

The player cannot consume anything in Creative mode except milk and potions.

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